Software and Beer

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Art in Programming

Thursday, March 09, 2006

Troubleshooting Internet Explorer

I've always said, Windows is non-deterministic. That is, for any two identical pieces of hardware running identically installed Windows software, the two machines will behave differently. This phenomenon increases over time--the longer a particular installation of Windows has been in existence, the more its behavior will diverge from its original baseline.

Sunday, March 05, 2006

WHY FEATURES DON'T MATTER ANYMORE: THE NEW LAWS OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY

Some good comments about why more features is bad. This article itself covers a lot of ground--why simple stylistic tools like iPod succeed--why simple features define your product. I like #5 and #6 especially when it comes to design of a complex feature set in a product. These are rules to design by.